by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. After I took the Bar Exam in July of 1973, I spent almost all my time at the Knox County Courthouse watching jury trials. I had watched several trials in my Uncle Joe’s court in earlier years while I was in undergraduate school at UT and...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. — Brutus from William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” In 42 BC,...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Harold A. Black This is not a politically correct article. For the life of me I can’t figure out how things that are so politically incorrect are labelled as being “politically correct.” My friends on the left will probably tell me that I am a bigot but it...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly The year was 1971, 50 years ago. Neyland Stadium seated 64,429, with a new southwest upper deck scheduled to open in 1972. Fifty years is an eternity by anybody’s standards, but for veteran Vol fans, 1971 was an amazing time, a season that had enough...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay The 2021 high school football season is three weeks old and Farragut High School is still in search of its first victory. But longtime Admirals head coach isn’t discouraged. “These kids continue to slowly get better,” Courtney said after Farragut dropped...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Major, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ralphine Major The first news report I heard said Knoxville. The next one, Corryton. A third identified him as a Gibbs High School graduate. United States (U.S.) Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss was one of the 13 American heroes who died in the recent attack on...
